good research experience, bad funding situation - Anonymous employee NASA Employee Review

3.0
Jun 12, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

work life balance, flexible work time, ability to set research goals.

Cons

constantly changing goals and funding issues

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5.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

Incredible WLB, impactful work, sense of pride when talking about what you do.

Cons

Have to work with legacy codebases often (like Fortran).

4.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

They tend to have managers who were engineers. And, "we're going to the freakin Moon!"

Cons

Government bureaucracy stuff, and residues of DOGE

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